Best Places84629, UT Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood inside ZIP code 84629, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. This page is for people who live here or already know they want to. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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84629 ranks 16,239th of 33,110 U.S. zip codes on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on a strong job market by a wide margin, and empty homes are the weak spot.

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The best neighborhoods in 84629

Map of the best neighborhoods in the 84629 area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.

84629's strengths and weaknesses

Top 5%A strong job market
Top 10%Heat safety
Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare 84629 with other zip codes.

Where 84629 ranks high

  • Local economyBetter than 95% of zip codes
  • Heat safetyBetter than 92% of zip codes
  • State infrastructureBetter than 90% of zip codes
  • Nice weatherabout 148 pleasant days a year, better than 89% of zip codes
  • Low property taxBetter than 85% of zip codes

Where 84629 ranks low

  • Low vacancyBetter than only 8% of zip codes
  • Air qualityBetter than only 12% of zip codes
  • Disaster safetyBetter than only 16% of zip codes
  • Housing crash safetyBetter than only 18% of zip codes
  • Internet speedBetter than only 19% of zip codes

What it costs to buy a home in 84629

A household needs to earn about $101,000 a year to comfortably buy the median 84629 home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $71,975, so buying stretches a typical household.

Income to buy the median home
$101,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$2,367
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $406,417 home
Median rent
$975
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$2,072
Property tax$160
Homeowners insurance$135

Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses 84629's effective rate of 0.47%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.

Renting versus buying

At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. The chart tracks the running cost of each.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in 84629

84629 runs older than the country, and households here run larger than average.

Median age
43
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
22%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
3.0
above the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1821%
18 to 3417%
35 to 4918%
50 to 6422%
65 and older22%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for 84629.


Who works in 84629, and how

Work in 84629 centers on hospitality & food and health care & social. Unemployment is low, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
12%
below the national average
Unemployment
1.2%
below the national average
Job growth
+5.8%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Hospitality & food13%
Health care & social12%
Construction12%
Education11%
Manufacturing9%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 85%
  • Work from home 12%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 3%

Life in 84629

The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across 84629.


What the weather is like in 84629, month by month

84629 sees roughly 148 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 94 degrees. January highs sit near 37, with lows near 15. The comfortable stretch runs May, June, August, and September.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January37°26°15°
April65°49°33°
July94°77°59°
October65°50°37°

Flying in and out of 84629

The nearest airport, Provo Municipal, is about 39 miles away and is a small airport. The nearest major hub is Salt Lake City International, about 81 miles away.

Nearest airport
PVU
Provo Municipal, about 39 miles
Airport size
Nonhub
139th-busiest in the US, 25 nonstop destinations
Average drive
56 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around 84629

Schools across 84629 average a B−, better than 60% of zip codes.

Top elementary schools

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Top high schools

Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every 84629 school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


84629 measure by measure

Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare 84629 against the other 33,109 zip codes.


Common questions about living in 84629

Is 84629 a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, 84629 ranks 16,239th of 33,110 zip codes. It scores highest on a strong job market, heat safety, and state infrastructure, and lowest on empty homes and air quality. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is 84629 expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $406,417. The overall cost of living runs about 6% below the national average. Set against a $71,975 median income, cost of living beats 38% of zip codes.

Is 84629 safe?

Yes, 84629 is safer than 72% of zip codes. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $292 per resident a year.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to 84629. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in 84629 represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.

84629 detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for 84629: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in 84629: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of 84629: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in 84629: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

84629 detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.